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An armed movement of debt-ridden farmers in western Massachusetts in the winter of 1786-87. The rebellion created a crisis atmosphere.
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Conference of the state delegates at Annapolis, Maryland, that issued a call in September 1786 for a convention to meet at Philadelphia to consider fundamental changes.
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Plan proposed at the 1787 Constitutional Convention for creating a national bicameral legislature.
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Newspaper written by James Madison.
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Act of Congress that implemented the judiciary clause of the Constitution by establishing the supreme court and a system of lower federal courts.
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Apart from a few selected industries, this first tariff passed by Congress was intended to raise revenure and not protet Amedrican Manufactureers from foreign competition.
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Regulations made by the state limited voting to a small percentage of the population.
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The Constitution was ratified with a majority vote from the states. It got majority of vote with the promise of a Bill of Rights.
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asic Law passed by COngress in 1790 which stated that the United States would regulate trade and interaction with Indian tribes.
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The Second Great Awakening happened among citizens. Mainly slaves.
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Hamilton's second component of his fiscal program.
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1793 cotton gin was invented which made work faster and easier. the popularity and want of the cotton gin improved the economy.
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Treaty with Britain negotiated in 1794 in which the United States made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships.
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Treaty in which Native Americans in the Old Northwest were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio to the United States.
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After Pres. Washingtons Farewell Address, John Adams was elected president.
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Undeclared naval war of 1797 to 1800 between the United States and France
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Diplomatic incident in 1798 in which Americans were outraged by the demand of the French for a bribe as a condition for negotiating with American diplomats.
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acts passed by Congress that curtailed freedom of speech and the liberty of foreign residents in the United States.
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Mr. Jefferson was elected president.
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Gabriel Prosser's slave revolt was discovered in Virginia. This causes Virginia to tighten law on manumission of slaves.
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Thomas Jefferson and Congress purchased a large amount of west land. This was called the Louisiana Purchase.
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Madison thought Marbury guilty of fraud and took him to court.
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Two men, who were friends with Thomas Jefferson that agreed to go travel the land of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Thomas Jefferson was reelected president.
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Act passed by Congress prohibiting American ships from leaving for any foreign port.
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1808 elected president.
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Congress prohibits U.s. participation in the international slave trade.
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Madison gets congress to declare war on Britain. This becomes a war.
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James Madison was reelected as president.
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Louisiana was admitted to the Union.
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Treaty signed in December 1814 between the United States and Britain that ended the War of 1812
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James Monroe is elected President of the United States
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Indiana is admitted to the Union.
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A national bank chartered by Congress in 1816 with extensive regulatory pwers over currency and credit.
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Large migration to the Old Southwest
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Treaty between the United States and Britain that effectively demilitarized the Great Lakes by sharply limiting the number of ships each power could station on them.
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Illinois admited to the Union.
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Treaty between the United States and Spain in which Spain ceded Florida to that United States, surrendered all claims to the Pacific Northwest and agreed to a boundary between the Louisiana Purchase tterritory and the Spanish Southwest.
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There was a delayed reaction to the end of the war of 1812 that worried people.
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Sectional compromise in Congress that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
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James Monroe is reelected as president.
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Declaration by President James Monroe that the Western Hemispheere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of European Nations.
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Nat Turner's revolt inVirginia
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Garrison begins publishing antislavery newspaper, the Liberator